France reopens inquiry into 2013 murder of Kurdish militants


  • World
  • Thursday, 16 May 2019

PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish militants, a judicial source and lawyer for the families of the dead activists said on Thursday, a case which could impact France's diplomatic relations with Turkey.

France dropped all judicial proceedings related to the killings in Paris in early 2017 after the main suspect, a 34-year-old Turkish national, died of complications arising from a brain tumour a month before his trial was due to open.

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